People, Let Me Tell You

Friday, Sept. 07, 2007 - 12:40 a.m.

Miyoshi Umeki died on August 28th.

She appeared in the movie 'Sayonara' with Red Buttons and Marlon Brando, and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She was the first Asian to win an Oscar of any kind.

She then went on to appear as Mrs. Livingston in The Courtship Of Eddie's Father.

She was 78 years old.

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Okay, Larry Craig has changed his mind again and is going to resign after all.

After this is all sorted out, I suppose he'll finally get to enjoy his early retirement by going fly fishing.

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In the Now THAT'S Using Your Noodle department, I submit for your amusement the following story:

Daft robber writes name on wall

An 18-year-old burglar who vandalised a children's campsite building was caught because he wrote his name on a wall at the scene, a court has heard.

Peter Addison, of Heaton Mersey, Stockport, and his friend Mark Ridgeway of Poynton, Cheshire, smashed crockery and let off fire extinguishers. . . . Apart from writing his own name in black marker pen at the Toc H centre in Adlington, Cheshire, Addison also left his gang's name on the wall - The Adlington Massiv!.

Police found him after entering his name in a computer system. Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: "This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table. There are some pretty stupid criminals around, but to leave your own name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit. The daftness of this lad certainly made our job a lot easier."

I'm so tired of stupid people.

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And finally --

I keep expecting Steve Fosset to turn up somewhere several thousand miles away and announce the invention of his nuclear fission airplane fuel.

Dammit.

Not ready to see him leave this incarnation for the next.

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All right, that's it. Have a good Friday.

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